In Hindsight, Roman Abramovich’s Reign As Chelsea Owner Wasn’t Good For EPL – Richard Masters

English Premier League chief executive, Richard Masters has come out to say that it would be difficult to claim the Roman Abramovich era at Chelsea was good for the league. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, it is hard to brand it good in hindsight after all that has transportation over the last six-and-a-half months, even if most Chelsea fans will always call it a success.

Richard added that he is extremely pleased that the sale of the club happened eventually, and owners got changed.

His words, “It’s difficult to say now, with hindsight, that it’s all been good, given what has transpired over the last six-and-a-half months,”

“I think if you ask Chelsea fans, they would give you a different answer.”

“I think the situation we ended with has given the sport some challenges we’ve got to meet. Ultimately, there wasn’t an owners’ and directors’ test when Abramovich took ownership of Chelsea, so I suppose the answer to the question is, had there been that in place what would have happened and what safeguards we need to build in for the future?”

“[There is] a rolling test, yes. Prevention is better than cure, isn’t it? There wasn’t then, there is now, it’s going to change and part of that actually is probably going to be the strengthening of the annual test.”

“You’re in unique circumstances, nothing like this has happened before,”

“There was obviously a genuine concern the sale wouldn’t take place in the timeframe that was available.”

“That didn’t happen thankfully. A lot of people worked extremely hard on it at the club’s end, the government’s end and Premier League’s end to make sure things were running as smoothly as possible. All I can say is we’re very pleased that it happened, obviously.”